DC criminals stealing your coat at gunpoint

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when you have a segment of society with most of the wealth, and another segment with very little wealth. It breeds crime.

Just look at the most dangerous cities/countries in the world. They all have this dynamic. Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, USA, etc… Oh and it’s not a coincidence that there is a racial component to this issue. This is what happens when those holding all the wealth prevent racial minorities from also gaining wealth. This problem will not be solved over night.

The economy is going gangbusters, with the greatest improvements at the bottom. Some people just want to be criminals.

How’s the view with your head buried in the sand?

Sure, if maybe this was a red state. But in super-left wing DC with its lavish social programs you get:

- Free food
- Free counseling and wrap-around services of all kinds
- Free housing
- Free job training
- Generous cash payments if you pinky-promise to commit no more crimes
- And even if after all that you still commit more violent crimes, you get endless get-out-of jail cards

So when bored teenage shoot Lyft drivers in the face just for the sake of joyriding a few blocks before crashing into a wall, how again is this because they're trying to put food on the table?!

[Anonymous]

It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

Exactly. It's not their fault. Because of slavery black people can't help but commit crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

These women recognize all of this but for some reason cannot stop having children. And I just don’t understand why. I appreciate loneliness, horniness, pressure from men who won’t wrap it up, stealthing, rape, delusions, all of it. It’s as simple as going to a clinic and getting an IUD. You can get one for free. You can have all the sex you want. Never worry about the pill. Never worry about condoms. (STIs are a concern but that’s not the problem here). There will be some accidental pregnancies but they will be negligible.

It is within every woman’s power to break this cycle, no matter how difficult men might make it for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

These women recognize all of this but for some reason cannot stop having children. And I just don’t understand why. I appreciate loneliness, horniness, pressure from men who won’t wrap it up, stealthing, rape, delusions, all of it. It’s as simple as going to a clinic and getting an IUD. You can get one for free. You can have all the sex you want. Never worry about the pill. Never worry about condoms. (STIs are a concern but that’s not the problem here). There will be some accidental pregnancies but they will be negligible.

It is within every woman’s power to break this cycle, no matter how difficult men might make it for them.

We’ve spent $30 trillion on the War on Poverty and in the same timeframe out of wedlock AA births have tripled. I’m not sure there is a solution. It’s incredibly depressing.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the rationale behind a person in their teens and early 20s walking around with thousands of dollars of branded clothing? Especially after at least one university (GWU) told them they were at risk and to stop wearing them. It can’t be status; it’s not their money.

This is demented. I can use the same logic to rob you of anything.

It is none of your business what I wear. I have the right to be safe to wear the most expensive or cheapest cloth.

Advertising one’s privilege is pretty tacky. Why make yourself a target by antagonizing those not as lucky as you?

Come on, people have cell phones. People have nice belts and coats and shoes. It’s not like it’s a $100k diamond ring or something - regular working people can save up for a Canada Goose jacket if that’s what they really want. People are getting carjacked if they drive a regular car like a Hyundai or a Honda, or a luxury car. Our city shouldn’t be this dangerous.

However given the vast inequality in wealth distribution it’s simply not appropriate to show off one’s material privilege.

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If anything, only reason people should think twice about what they wear is because DC has opted to behave as third world city.

Third World?
Your ignorance is evident in the use of this phrase.

Daily murders and people here are tone policing phrases. Brilliant.

NP

At this point, speech is about the only thing leftists are actually willing to police…

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

These women recognize all of this but for some reason cannot stop having children. And I just don’t understand why. I appreciate loneliness, horniness, pressure from men who won’t wrap it up, stealthing, rape, delusions, all of it. It’s as simple as going to a clinic and getting an IUD. You can get one for free. You can have all the sex you want. Never worry about the pill. Never worry about condoms. (STIs are a concern but that’s not the problem here). There will be some accidental pregnancies but they will be negligible.

It is within every woman’s power to break this cycle, no matter how difficult men might make it for them.

We’ve spent $30 trillion on the War on Poverty and in the same timeframe out of wedlock AA births have tripled. I’m not sure there is a solution. It’s incredibly depressing.

Well making abortion illegal isn’t going to help at all… so buckle up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

These women recognize all of this but for some reason cannot stop having children. And I just don’t understand why. I appreciate loneliness, horniness, pressure from men who won’t wrap it up, stealthing, rape, delusions, all of it. It’s as simple as going to a clinic and getting an IUD. You can get one for free. You can have all the sex you want. Never worry about the pill. Never worry about condoms. (STIs are a concern but that’s not the problem here). There will be some accidental pregnancies but they will be negligible.

It is within every woman’s power to break this cycle, no matter how difficult men might make it for them.

We’ve spent $30 trillion on the War on Poverty and in the same timeframe out of wedlock AA births have tripled. I’m not sure there is a solution. It’s incredibly depressing.

Well making abortion illegal isn’t going to help at all… so buckle up.

They don’t get abortions when they’re legal anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

Exactly. It's not their fault. Because of slavery black people can't help but commit crime.

Nah something else is going on. Under Williams and Fenty crime was getting so low people started moving back to the city. I don’t exactly remember their policies but someone obviously changed a formula that was working

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

Exactly. It's not their fault. Because of slavery black people can't help but commit crime.

After 160 years isn’t it about time that slavery stopped being used as an excuse for everything?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How did DC get cleaned up in the past , what is the current barrier to getting crime down

Most progressives are critical theorists so they view the poor as oppressed. To them, street crime is justice. That's why this won't be solved as long as leftists are in charge. We need good moderate liberals and conservatives to come in and implement solutions that work in the real world, not just the world of make-believe that progressives live in.

Leftists are getting robbed to and they are changing their tune. Funny how that happens.

My DH fought hard to keep affordable housing in Columbia Heights and U St. Rallied, walked, testified, organized, wrote, visited reps. He was robbed at gun point and beaten up by the people he organized for right on U St. He doesn’t try to help keep those projects anymore.

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Agree. I know so many people who used to be what DCUM used to call "bleeding heart" - the policies bit them in the arse, and no more. What's the point?

He’s still way farther left than most people. I have to talk him out of these protests and causes that won’t work out logically how he believes and wishes they can. Definitely a bleeding heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

Meant to add;

- these so-called crimes youth allegedly commit in the DC area are really just do-it-yourself reparations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

Exactly. It's not their fault. Because of slavery black people can't help but commit crime.

Nah something else is going on. Under Williams and Fenty crime was getting so low people started moving back to the city. I don’t exactly remember their policies but someone obviously changed a formula that was working

Sometimes it's not specific policies. But rather the confluence of other things that lead to a cultural shift. If you talk to teachers, they all note how weak and unprepared students are at every grade level today. Many will attribute the beginnings of this dramatic drop off to No Child Left Behind, which led to a focus on teaching to the test with an emphasis on focusing on the bottom 5 percent of the class at the expense of everyone else. Additionally, the way we taught reading and writing completely changed. Phonics were no longer taught. Now it was all about patterns. Which means if you don't come from a reading household where parents are teaching kids how to read by using sounds, students are effectively lost and illiterate by 10. And they never catch up. Additionally, similar changes occurred in the way math was taught. No one learns basics like multiplication tables anymore. We abandoned real teaching for vapid, unproven theories pushed by consultants and administrators - not teachers.

The effect of all this is that if a kid doesn't come from a highly educated and supportive household environment, they are dumb as rocks these days. They can't read. They can't write. They can't do basic arithmetic. And by fifth grade, there is no chance of catching up. I genuinely believe that the changes we've made to how we educate kids has led to profound impacts on the intelligence and aptitude of this generation of young people.

Throw in Covid, with its nearly two years of isolation. Many of these kids missed a big part of the socialization process. Add in Black Lives Matter, and the subsequent removal of policing, prosecution, and consequences for crime in DC. Toss in social media, with its toxicity and the destruction of attention spans. And the results speak for themselves.

Kids coming from well-educated households with a lot of books and an emphasis on learning will always find a way. This isn't about kids assigned to Whitman or Langley. But if you don't come from a household like that, and you go to school in DC - poor, unprepared single moms, crime, instability, social pressure to behave in certain ways - there is almost no chance a kid emerges as well-educated and employable. We've made it impossible.

It's a completely lost generation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

Meant to add;

- these so-called crimes youth allegedly commit in the DC area are really just do-it-yourself reparations.

Someone said $30 Trillion was spent on the war on poverty. A big chunk of that was reparations. Debt long since paid. It’s time to stop making excuses for crime and move forward being Americans together

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group.

Exactly. It's not their fault. Because of slavery black people can't help but commit crime.

Nah something else is going on. Under Williams and Fenty crime was getting so low people started moving back to the city. I don’t exactly remember their policies but someone obviously changed a formula that was working

Sometimes it's not specific policies. But rather the confluence of other things that lead to a cultural shift. If you talk to teachers, they all note how weak and unprepared students are at every grade level today. Many will attribute the beginnings of this dramatic drop off to No Child Left Behind, which led to a focus on teaching to the test with an emphasis on focusing on the bottom 5 percent of the class at the expense of everyone else. Additionally, the way we taught reading and writing completely changed. Phonics were no longer taught. Now it was all about patterns. Which means if you don't come from a reading household where parents are teaching kids how to read by using sounds, students are effectively lost and illiterate by 10. And they never catch up. Additionally, similar changes occurred in the way math was taught. No one learns basics like multiplication tables anymore. We abandoned real teaching for vapid, unproven theories pushed by consultants and administrators - not teachers.

The effect of all this is that if a kid doesn't come from a highly educated and supportive household environment, they are dumb as rocks these days. They can't read. They can't write. They can't do basic arithmetic. And by fifth grade, there is no chance of catching up. I genuinely believe that the changes we've made to how we educate kids has led to profound impacts on the intelligence and aptitude of this generation of young people.

Throw in Covid, with its nearly two years of isolation. Many of these kids missed a big part of the socialization process. Add in Black Lives Matter, and the subsequent removal of policing, prosecution, and consequences for crime in DC. Toss in social media, with its toxicity and the destruction of attention spans. And the results speak for themselves.

Kids coming from well-educated households with a lot of books and an emphasis on learning will always find a way. This isn't about kids assigned to Whitman or Langley. But if you don't come from a household like that, and you go to school in DC - poor, unprepared single moms, crime, instability, social pressure to behave in certain ways - there is almost no chance a kid emerges as well-educated and employable. We've made it impossible.

It's a completely lost generation

I can’t even argue with this. It’s all true.